Clio's Consort: Jeremy Belknap and the Founding of the Massachusetts Historical Society

by Louis Leonard Tucker and Lois Leonard Tucker

Book Overview

Former Massachusetts Historical Society director Louis Leonard Tucker's Clio's Consort: Jeremy Belknap and the Founding of the Massachusetts Historical Society offers not only a useful biographical sketch of Belknap, but also a close examination of his values as a historian and an in-depth treatment of the beginnings of the Massachusetts Historical Society and Belknap's preeminent role in the establishment of the Society in 1791 (as the first historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093490927X
• ISBN13: 9780934909273
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Massachusetts Historical Society
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher